Amanda Amour-Lynx

Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario and member of Wagmatcook First Nation. Their spirit name is Jilaptoq, The One Who Leaves Footprints.

Lynx is passionate about accessibility and building programming that centers Two Spirit and Black Indigenous youth. Their favourite part of their role at IYR is creating thriving community spaces that combine cultural knowledge sharing, stewardship, wellness activities, artmaking, crafting and storytelling. Peer-to-peer relationship building and reciprocity is at the heart of their values. True abundance is sharing what you have with others.

Their art combines traditional l’nu’k approaches, painting, new media and digital arts, guided by Mi’kmaq cosmology, ecological knowledges, gender exploration and language resurgence. Lynx holds a BFA from OCAD University, minoring in Indigenous Visual Culture, an SSW diploma from Humber College and has been learning beginner L’nuismk at CBU and through community language initiatives. Lynx loves spending time at home with their two kitties Spirit and Apli’kmuj, and taking care of their plants. Apuksikn, or lynx, translates to snowy boots in the Mi’kmaw language.